March 2004
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The original Star Wars Trilogy is now available for pre-order on Amazon.com for 40% off. I still haven’t bought Episodes I and II so that if Lucas decides to only release them along with III in a boxed set I won’t have to buy them again. Usually, though, I prefer to have the original release rather than boxes or collector’s sets.
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After much, much deliberation, Katherine and I have decided to stay in the DC area and she has accepted her offer from the Industrial/Organizational Psychology doctoral program at George Mason University.
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TypeKey and the Benefits of Centralization
The internet’s all a-tizzy over this new TypeKey hoozitz. While I understand the worries over security and downtimes, there are some areas where centralization can provide useful tools.
TypeKey is Six Apart’s upcoming solution to comment registration and hopeful comment spam panacea:
TypeKey is a free, open system providing a central identity that anyone can use to log in and post comments on...
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Zombie Government
Having seen the other movie about people rising from the dead this weekend, I realized that our society is dangerously unprepared for zombie attack. When Independence Day came out, a slow news week resulted in a story that the United States government had no plan in place for how to handle an alien invasion. That’s right, were the planet to be invaded by aliens or overrun by the living dead, our...
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Browsing on Amazon today to find something to buy along with The Matrix Revolutions to qualify for free shipping, I noticed this DVD recommendation. I guess Amazon’s script for pulling movie reviews didn’t figure out that a blurb calling a film a “surprising disappointment” wasn’t the best way to sell it.
I actually happen to like A Life Less Ordinary a lot. In fact, in addition to...
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With MovableType 3.0 on the horizon, and with prompting from Kottke’s new integrated design, I’ve been doing some thinking about what weblog software doesn’t do. Here’s a short list of some features I’d like to see in the next generation of personal publishing software. Most of these can be done with clever hacks, but the fact that the hacks exist shows that there’s a need that isn’t being...
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For weeks now I’ve been getting occasional automated messages from Charter Communications telling me that I am scheduled for new service installation the next day. I’ve been ignoring these calls and assuming that whoever is actually supposed to be getting the new service will eventually get sick of their installation man not showing up, call Charter, and provide them with the correct phone number....
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Having a high tech camera-phone is fun, but I haven’t had much success actually sending my bad low quality photos to other people. MMS does not seem to be implemented in any standard way from one carrier to another. This is bad. It means that you can’t really be sure your recipient is going to see your message correctly, and to even get it to them at all you have to know both what company they use...